{"product_id":"liminal-fiction-at-the-edge-of-the-millennium-the-ends-of-spanish-identity-9781611485790","title":"Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminality—identity situated at a threshold, neither one thing nor another, but simultaneously both and neither—caused by encounters with otherness while negotiating identity in contemporary Spain. Examining how identity and alterity are parleyed through the cultural concerns of historical memory, gender roles, sex, religion, nationalism, and immigration, this study demonstrates how fictional representations of reality converge in a common structure wherein the end is not the end, but rather an edge, a liminal ground. On the border between two identities, the end materializes as an ephemeral limit that delineates and differentiates, yet also adjoins and approximates. In exploring the ends of Spanish fiction—both their structure and their intentionality—Liminal Fiction maps the edge as a constitutive component of narrative and identity in texts by Najat El Hachmi, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Javier Marías, Rosa Montero, and Manuel Rivas. In their representation of identity on the edge, these fictions enact and embody the liminal not as simply a transitional and transient mode but as the structuring principle of identification in contemporary Spain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFolkart masterfully uses the theories of Emmanuel Lévinas to consider Christina Fernández Cuba’s  Parientes pobres del diablo (2006) as an exploration of the ethics implicit in identity formation. . . .Folkart’s writing is clear, concise and eminently readable, giving the lie to the assumption that serious scholarship must equal dry prose. In the final analysis, Folkart’s thought provoking, superbly researched, and convincingly argued study of the palimpsest of Spanish identities makes this book an asset to contemporary literary and cultural studies. * Letras Femeninas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Acknowledgments  Note on Translations  Chapter 1: On the Edge: Liminality and Spanish Identity at the Turn of the Millennium  Chapter 2: The (Never) Ending Story: Apocalyptic Desire and the Liminal Fiction of Javier Marías's Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí  Chapter 3: History Incarnate and the Liminal Body in Rosa Montero’s La hija del caníbal  Chapter 4: Second-Hand Identity: Limbs, Liminality, and Transplantation in Manuel Rivas’s A man dos paíños   Chapter 5: Ethical In-difference and Liminal Identity in Cristina Fernández Cubas’s Parientes pobres del diablo  Chapter 6: Scoring the National Hym(e)n: Sexuality, Immigration, and Liminal Identity in Najat El Hachmi’s L’últim patriarca  Conclusion: The End of Liminal Fiction  Afterword\/Afterward  Works Cited  Index  About the Author","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041702314327,"sku":"9781611485790","price":83.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611485790.jpg?v=1750951366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liminal-fiction-at-the-edge-of-the-millennium-the-ends-of-spanish-identity-9781611485790","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}